Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

[Ankai]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Dear all,
Baby Eamonn arrived at 2am Irish time after our teaparty. Mother and baby doing well.
gassho,
Soen

Congrats!
Gassho. ~Dave.

Awesome, my man!!! Slainte!!

[Tb]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi.

A reminder of the Treeleaf teaparty ,sunday 21.00 (swedish time ) on skype.
Contains a short ceremony and some friendly talks.
If you want to join, unless you already have, pm Fugen or Shohei your skypename.

Everybody's welcome.
Same time, same place.
Thank you for your practice.

Gassho & Mtfbwy
Shohei and Fugen

[Myozan Kodo]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Thank you all for the kindness and good wishes. I appreciate it. My wife is impressed by your goodwill: "what a great forum!"
Deep and tired bows,
Soen

[Dosho]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi all,

Here is this past week's tea party report:

Turnout was a bit light, but consistent in the members joining from the previous week. After meal and robe chants and a short sit, the discussion turned to matters of practice on and off the cushion. Some reported frustrations with things like cell phones submerged in water and doctors who don't return emergency calls while others had a boring (as in good) week of sitting. Also mentioned was a common agreement that the videos posted by Jundo and Taigu over the past couple weeks have been very helpful to practice. We discussed topics ranging from the changes in the middle east and north africa and how they mirror the events of the late 8os in some respects, how our spouses regard our zen practice, how the end of the week zazenkais seem to come at the "right" time for some, welcome wagons, and oranges for Ango. After about half the participants had departed the remaining folks had a discussion about education and the decision to send your kids to public school or homeschooling them.

Hope to see some regular and new faces at the tea party this Sunday!

Gassho,
Dosho

[Shohei]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi all

If you want to join either, Just pm Fugen or Shohei your skypename.

A reminder of the Treeleaf teaparty ,sunday 21.00 (swedish time ) on skype.
Contains a short ceremony and some friendly talks.
If you want to join, unless you already have, pm Fugen or Shohei your skypename.

Also, next sunday we have the Treeleaf beginners mind teaparty, starting an hour earlier, 20.00 (swedish time).

Everybody's welcome.
Same time, same place.
Thank you for your practice.

Gassho & Mtfbwy
Shohei and Fugen

[Graceleejenkins]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Shohei wrote:
Hi folks
For anyone who is interested and able, to Fugen, Hans and I are going to make a commitment to sit every (at least one of us!)Sunday @ 3pm (New York) or 9pm (Tibro, Sweden/Cologne, Germany), 4pm (Fredericton New Brunswick) to share a cup a tea. Please feel free to join in.

I'm not sure that you got my private message, because it showed up in my outbox but not the sent box. (As you can tell I am a newbie, and don't quite have the hang of this.) So, I just wanted to try sending it again to make sure you get it. I apologize if it is a duplicate.

Okay, now I am posting directly to the topic, because both private messages stayed in my outbox. (If someone can tell me what I am doing wrong, I'd appreciate it.) Sorry.

I would like to try to join the tea party tomorrow. I just signed up for Skype, and I bought headphones. Could you send me instructions on how to join in? However, never having used either, I still may not be successful in joining.

My Skype name is graceleejenkins.

Gassho, Grace.
Graceleejenkins

[anista]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hello,

As far as I know, a private message is kept in the outbox until the recipient reads it, then it's transferred to sent messages. So your messages have been sent, but not read.

[Tb]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi.

Grace, as Anista said, it stays in teh outbox until read.
I had taken some time off treeleaf, and am only on for posting this and checking everything for tonight so now it should read read...

And you're added!

Mtfbwy
Fugen

[Myozan Kodo]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hello Tea Party folks.
Sorry I missed you this week. My wife needed to use the computer.
Gassho,
Soen

[Hogo]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Yes, missed you guys as well, was in the middle of painting the laundry room, should be round next week.
Gassho ~ D.

[Graceleejenkins]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hello,

As far as I know, a private message is kept in the outbox until the recipient reads it, then it's transferred to sent messages. So your messages have been sent, but not read.

/Philip

Thanks, kind of opposite of Microsoft Office, but that makes sense to me now. Thanks for helping me. Gassho, Grace.

[Tb]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi.

NOTE THAT DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME HAS BEGUN IN THE U.S. and CANADA (IT WILL NOT COMMENCE IN EUROPE UNTIL MARCH 27th)

A reminder of the Treeleaf teaparty ,sunday 21.00 (swedish time ) on skype.
Contains a short ceremony and some friendly talks.
If you want to join, unless you already have, pm Fugen or Shohei your skypename.

Everybody's welcome.
Same time, same place.
Thank you for your practice.

Gassho & Mtfbwy
Shohei and Fugen

[Tb]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi.

A short secretary list from the last teaparty
Old computers
Quitting smoking
Drugs
Fasting & Food
Memory & old age
Meditation, shikantaza & Kensho
Sila, samadhi & prajna
precepts
"needy" family members
Perspective on people and social identity issues

And...

NOTE THAT DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME WILL COMMENCE IN EUROPE MARCH 27th

A reminder of the Treeleaf teaparty ,sunday 21.00 (swedish time ) on skype.
Contains a short ceremony and some friendly talks.
If you want to join, unless you already have, pm Fugen or Shohei your skypename.

Everybody's welcome.
Same time, same place.
Thank you for your practice.

Gassho & Mtfbwy
Shohei and Fugen

[Dosho]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi all,

Here is this past week's tea party report:

Turnout was light this week with only 3 folks at any one time, but it was thought that the time change may have left some people confused about the start time. After our traditional meal chant, robe verse, and short sit we had a spirited and stimulating conversation about a number of topics (Translation: I forgot to keep notes for the first half of the call!). The attendees also discussed their influences on morality and spirituality that some might call a geek fest but that we liked to call a video media influenced coming of age philosophical conference. Seriously though, we talked about the effect sagas like Star Wars and Star Trek may have had on us and who we are today. Some other topics that followed concerned one participant's choice of head attire, the selflessness of mentors, whether one can be "too" happy, perfectionism, how Treeleaf is evolving, and sewing the buddha's robe.

Hope to see some more folks at the next tea party!

Gasssho,
Dosho

[Tb]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi.

A reminder of the Treeleaf teaparty ,sunday 21.00 (swedish time ) on skype.
Contains a short ceremony and some friendly talks.
If you want to join, unless you already have, pm Fugen or Shohei your skypename.

Everybody's welcome.
Same time, same place.
Thank you for your practice.

Gassho & Mtfbwy
Shohei and Fugen